I made a Discovery today

[Tikka595II]

I uncovered a headstone this morning at the job site I'm working on currently

Between needing to continue to work and my Google fu being weak I have been unable to come up with any more information about it at this time. Does anybody have access to history or enlistment data that might have some information about this individual or perhaps you know or have heard of this individual the stone is located in Abington Township PA . And before anybody ask the area has already been fenced off and the GC is working on an investigation. Thanks for joining me on this little mystery Tour

 

[Ravenworks]

Wow, that's pretty serious if it's a full grave and not just a stone.
I shut a job down in Akron Ohio when we found a shit ton of pottery underneath a 100 year old 9 story building.
It get pretty serious pretty quick, especially after the media shows up

 

[DuneBoer]

 

[DuneBoer]

 

[DuneBoer]

This is all I could find.

 

[DuneBoer]

Looks like Catherine died in 78

 

[MCHOG]

This is all I could find.View attachment 7353428

That's almost @THEIS -level impressive.

 

[DuneBoer]

I'm no @THEIS! I just have a subscription to Ancestry.com! and I'm a bored retired investigator with no access to any of my databases anymore. if someone here has access to NEXUS they might be able to find a relative.

 

[Maggot]

RIP, Sir.

 

[DuneBoer]

View attachment 7353434
Looks like Catherine died in 78

My guess is since Catherine and Daniel are both on this headstone, the investigators could check with the cemetery and see if they are both buried there. If Daniel is not there you may be shut down for a while.

 

[MCHOG]

I'm no @THEIS! I just have a subscription to Ancestry.com! and I'm a bored retired investigator with no access to any of my databases anymore. if someone here has access to NEXUS they might be able to find a relative.

There is nothing on LexisNexis.

 

[nexusfire]

So this is just a single grave site?

 

[Tikka595II]

Thanks for the replies guys I spoke to the site superintendent before lunch for a little bit according to what they have found out the county records to indicate that Daniel is buried with his wife in Bucks County. Additionally a grandson has stepped forward to claim the Stone and we have a green light to move forward once again hopefully we don't find anything contrary to the county records.

 

[Tikka595II]

So this is just a single grave site?

As of this point it's not a gravesite at all just a lost headstone not sure how it got there currently it is supposed that this was the standard military sent headstone and since he didn't need it it was a "gift" to the family

 

[JCHayes]

RIP Brother

 

[Slash0311]

RIP and Semper Fi.

Thanks for your effort trying to do the right thing for this Marine!

 

[Maggot]

RIP and Semper Fi.

Thanks for your effort trying to do doing the right thing for this Marine!

 

[hankpac]

Very interesting. A few years ago, someone got all excited about finding headstones from pre-Earthquake in SF, at the beach. Turns out that they had all been replaced, and the scavenged headstones were being used as erosion control on the beach, and were there is multitudes. Insensitive, but effective, I guess. Piss on history, sort of attitude.

 

[Trigger Monkey]

There was a job site here in Virginia that had a similar but very real issue come up during construction. When the land was purchased it was never disclosed that there was a grave site on it and it wasn't until neighbors started to mention seeing old headstones and like did an investigation begin. County records didn't show anything, nor did any maps show a grave site in the area, but sure enough when they had a firm come out for a survey using ground penetrating radar they discovered multiple graves. Shortly after that the head stones were found in another area of the site all piled together in a pit and that's when the story started to get pieced together. In all there slightly less than 20 grave sites belonging to the same family going back to the early 1800's and apparently the previous land owner got tired of looking at the grave stones so he removed them, dumped them in a pit, and buried them. Then when the land was sold he never mentioned it. If this is starting to sound like the plot to Poltergeist, that parallel has been mentioned many times lol. As far as I know the bodies have been removed, they're being stored, and awaiting to be reinterred at a local cemetary where their old headstones will be buried with them and new headstones provided. If the shitbag previous landowner doesn't cough the dough to pay for everything then criminal charges will be pursued.

I recommended to the contractor to get a priest, shaman, or witch doctor to bless that damn site, don't need no pissed off spirits in a new building.